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Book review: Critical Chain

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to read Critical Chain. But Critical Chain is different. What is critical chain? Critical chain is a way to streamline processes so that you avoid bottlenecks and increase throughput. Why not ‘critical chain’?”

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6 Ideas to Improve Your Project Resource Management

Brightwork

6 Definitions: Make sure you understand these six core principles of resource management – Resource Levelling, Critical Chain Planning, Resource Capacity Planning, Resource Tracking, Resource Communications, and Resource Commitments – before tackling your next project. Do You Know This Simple Approach To Resource Management?:

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Webinar Recap: Understanding Dependencies, Leads, and Lags with MS Project

MPUG

You have to find out the critical path, if you are following a critical path measurement method, or if you are following a critical chain method, that time you have to follow another approach. Also, it has, with respect to other concepts such as fast-tracking, crashing, you have near-critical path.

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Project Management Glossary: 200+ Terms PMs Frequently Use

Epicflow Blog

Critical Activities . are critical path planned activities. Critical Chain . Project Management Office (PMO) . Crashing . is a schedule compression technique reviewing cost and schedule tradeoffs aiming to perform better compression without adding incremental cost. . Project Life Cycle .

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Critical Chain Method: A method for scheduling projects with uncertain deadlines and limited resources. In the Critical Chain Method, project managers rely on placing buffers on project schedule paths to make room for unexpected contingencies. A network diagram is a critical tool for project scheduling.

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Project Management Glossary: 200+ Terms PMs Frequently Use

Epicflow Blog

Critical Activities . are critical path planned activities. Critical Chain . Project Management Office (PMO) . Crashing . is a schedule compression technique reviewing cost and schedule tradeoffs aiming to perform better compression without adding incremental cost. . Project Life Cycle .